The granddaddy of all fan fests returns this weekend when the 30th annual Cubs Convention kicks off Friday at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers.
The blueprint isn't too different from the one former Cubs executive John McDonough invented in 1986,...

It has been 10 years since Comcast SportsNet first flipped the switch on Oct. 1, 2004. Since then, the network has documented some of the biggest moments in Chicago sports history.
CSN will reflect on its 10-year anniversary Wednesday at 10 p.m. The one-...

The Orioles have an afternoon game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Sarasota, and those Blue Jays aren’t fooling around. They have brought some of their big guns, such as Jose Bautista, Melky Cabrera and Adam Lind. And Mark Buehrle is expected to...

They had no game Monday, but it was hardly a day off for the Washington Nationals.
At Nationals Park, Bryce Harper took his latest step back to the lineup with a workout. Starting pitcher Dan Haren planned to receive an MRI on his stiff right shoulder. The Nationals held their breath that Jayson Werth's groin strain would turn out to be nothing.
Along with underperformance and roster changes, injuries have turned the Nationals from a preseason favorite to a team flirting with .500. Ten Nationals...

The Orioles entered Tuesday's game against the Toronto Blue Jays needing a miraculous sequence of events to make the playoffs, but they were still mathematically alive in the chase for the second American League wild-card spot.
But the Orioles' 3-2, 10-inning loss to the Blue Jays in front of a half-empty Camden Yards — combined with the Cleveland Indians' 5-4 walk-off win over the Chicago White Sox — killed their faint postseason hopes.
“There were a lot of good things that went on,&...

Chris Tillman's groundbreaking moment came and went without much fanfare Tuesday.
The Orioles right-hander pitched seven innings in a 3-2 loss to the Blue Jays and, in doing so, surpassed 200 innings pitched for the season — a milestone only four other Orioles have reached in the past 12 years.
But because the loss ended the Orioles' playoff hopes, Tillman said it was difficult to celebrate his benchmark year.
"It's tough," Tillman said. "[Two hundred innings] is more of a personal thing,...

Orioles closer Jim Johnson entered the ninth inning of Sunday afternoon’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays coming off two clean outings, including saving a one-run win the day before.
But Johnson walked off the field -- with Blue Jays players running around the field in jubilation -- with an all too familiar feeling of frustration.
Johnson couldn’t preserve a three-run, ninth-inning lead, blowing his fourth save in his past five opportunities in the Orioles’ 6-5 walkoff loss at the...

The Orioles' three starters in next week's MLB All-Star Game — Chris Davis, Adam Jones and J.J. Hardy — have each done their share to carry the offense through the first half of the season.
And on Friday night, the trio combined to drive in all of the Orioles runs — each player hitting a home run to increase the club's major league-leading homer total to 128 — in the Orioles' 8-5 win over the Blue Jays in front of an announced 42,660 at Camden Yards.
In a game that featured...

MLB Wild Card 2013 TV schedule: The NL Wild Card Game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates (Oct. 1) and the AL Wild Card Game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cleveland Indians (Oct. 2) air on TBS. Full schedule, commentators and more from